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here is brett ehrlich to add his $0.02. shhhh, brett's talking now. >> as a means of backing up the president's claim that he, quote, does skeet shooting all the time. the white house released this photo of the president blowing clay pigeons back to that hell they came from. the photo's release is accompanied by a warning not to doctor the photo in any way. now the president has been put everywhere from pirates of the caribbean to this touching picture. some have gone after the president, but political figures are always releasing photos as a mean of responding to attacks. chuck hagel has faced claims
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that he is anti-israel. and remember when joe biden released that photo of him shooting off a fire cracker in a circle? he just thought that was really cool. and we remember that the president posted this photo proving he definite can read. i'm done talking now. >> jennifer: thank you brett for that 100% factually accurate reporting. somebody is always in our "war room." check us out online at dp@danpink.com check out our facebook and twitter. have a great night. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> now welcome to "the young turks." we have a fantastic show for you today. i'm going to be joined by ana kasparian in just a bit. we'll look at a tragedy that happened over the weekend. it is an unthinkable thing that happened to the author of american sniper. but what a shooting range be a
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good place to treat someone with ptsd. >> he cared so much about helping other veterans. >> the police believe he was tryiyi t to o hehelp himimtt the gun range outside of dallas. >> maybe that's why they were at the range for some type of therapy. >> and leon panetta is on his farewell tour as defense secretary. he's now saying that drones is a moral decision. >> as a catholic i remember when i first became director of the c.i.a. and realized i was making life-and-death decisions. >> and it was the super bowl with famous super bowl ads and even jeep got in the game this year. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> and don't let mitt romney know that jeep is actually still an american company.
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yes, the niners lost the super bowl. for me it was no time. for you it's go time. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> so welcome to "the young turks." michael shure here, ana kasparian joining me. anna, we had a real tragedy at the shooting range here in texas texas. chris kyle was gunned down by someone he was trying to treat. >> reporter: 25-year-old eddie ray roth was charged with two counts of murder with the death of legendary military sniper chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. kyle was one of the most skilled and deadly snipers in u.s. history. he once shot a target more than
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a mile away. he was a highly decorated navy seal, seven medals of bravery. >> michael hastings joins us with this segment as well. when you read in kyle's history you read that he had five tours in iraq. there are reports that he killed as many as 160 people. what are your thoughts on this story? >> i think it's very much laudatory that he was trying to help a 25-year-old veteran with ptsd. kyle had great success with his book. he became somewhat of a celebrity in the military community, and he was trying to use that in a positive way bringing a kid out to a shooting range. i know people might think that's odd, why would you take someone with ptsd to a range and around
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gunfire. there were people who would go back in the war zone to relive the experience but instead have a positive result at the end of it. there are different things that people are trying to do to combat those things and it sound like that's what they were trying to do in this case. >> did you know chris kyle at all? >> no, i reached out to him when i did a story on a former navy seal. the number of people killed that is credited to this guy killing is extraordinary. i mean, killing 160 people, i mean the famous scene in the book where he shoots a woman who has a child with her. so my guess would be without knowing him that he probably had his own demons as well, and part of his penance, so to speak
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whether he knew he was doing the right thing or not all along is to help other veterans who are struggling. >> it's tragic on so many levels. when the gun story gets more and more tragic, we hear about what happened there. we experience newtown we experience killings every day since newtown. we'll talk about that later. when you hear michael say one of the famous passages from his book is about killing a child and killing a mother, it makes you wonder what in the world is going on that we're talking about guns in this way constantly. this is a very different way of talking about it. the president went to minnesota. he's on his gun tour right now. he's trying to get people to warm up to his ideas about gun control, about having a conversation. he was in minnesota today. >> obama: we may not be able to prevent every massacre or random
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shooting. no law or set of laws can keep our children completely safe. but if there is even one thing we can do, if there is one life we can save, we've got an obligation to try. >> you know, i'm going to ask you both to listen to what went on as well. the president is taking the position that he wants to reach out. he wants to have a conversation with america. this was the beginning a 15-minute speech in minnesota. he went on to talk about the things that aren't being done that we don't know is being done. do you know for six years we have not had anybody confirmed as head of the atf of alcohol and tobacco and firearms? >> since they have not confirmed a director of alcohol tobacco and firearms in six years. they should confirm todd jones.
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>> how important is that? tell me why it hasn't happened and how important it is that we have someone in place. to a layperson it may seem like a figure head. >> it's interesting. that's an interesting question. i don't equally know how much the atf would have been able to do with a permanent director but that being said i think it's a obvious rule of bureaucracy. when you have someone who can implement their victims then the organization will be able to be more effective rather than having it not filled. also what kind of message and i've heard this in other conversations, what kind of message is it sending to men and women who are in the atf who are risking their lives on the streets, when congress won't put someone at the head and lead them on the path of what they should be doing. like you said, it's a simple thing that can be done, that at least can get us on the right track with trying to get these
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illegal weapons off the streets. >> absolutely, i agree with that. to add on a little bit one thing that gun advocates point to is that we do have laws in place to protect us against crazy people getting their hand on guns. we also don't have the ability to enforce a lot of those laws. and making sure that there is a director of the atf might solve a little bit of that problem. let's move on to harry reid because harry reid has been asked about gun patrol. control. he has been asked by george stephanopoulos. and here's what he had to say about it. >> would you vote for it? >> i didn't vote for the assault weapons last time because it didn't make sense but i'll take a look at it. >> now here is the important thing to remember about harry reid. he's facing a little bit of a conundrum because there is what is good for the country and what his constituents in nevada wants. and of course in nevada they're very much pro gun. and he is very much pro gun
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himself. it is very unlikely that he's well to support an assault weapons ban. but he was also talking about background checks. let's hear what he said about that. >> everyone acknowledged that we should have universal background checks. i support the second amendment but you can do things like that. >> michael, what are your thoughts. do you think harry reid will take the lead on gun control? >> i don't think he'll take the lead, but he's the smartest politician out there. i don't have any problems saying that. he won a race in nevada that he should not have won. he has some how maintained his position as majority leader in the senate, but i think what he's saying is, look, they have to come to me with something solid for me to change my tune and be able to sell it to the people of nevada where they haven't been able to sell things in the past. i don't think it's such a slam dunk but it's possible that
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harry reid could come to the center with some of the caucus. >> he seems unwilling to do it. he is a huge fan of guns. he has a big history with guns as well. >> you know, and hastings, i want to ask you that, too. this is politics at play. to be shepherding this through the senate. tell us what you think is at play. >> if there is just one thing that can be done we should do it. my guess is the white house is going to do one thing and that is to. push through the background check. i don't think the assault weapons ban is going to happen. especially when you have the senate majority leader, even he didn't think it was a great idea. >> i do see republicans who are saying things that i like to hear republicans say for the first time. let's listen to what they said
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to republicans about guns. >> look, connecticut was a game changer. we need to understand that. the gun issue is here. it's not going away. every other day we're hearing about a tragedy on the news, and people keep asking what are we doing about it. the republicans and the nra should be part of the solution, and be part of the conversation, not just say no. and universal background checks is something that they could come to a consensus on. >> they should pay attention anna navarro part of the latino republican party that they need to pay attention to. since newtown 1543 people have been killed. that's almost 60 newtowns since nu town. think about that. now we're looking at the president with guns actually holding the gun.
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>> cenk: welcome book "the young turks." michael shure here in here with ana kasparian and michael hastings. michael is the author of "panic "panic 2012" what may be perhaps is barack obama's final campaign. one of the news items that we've been spending time on, i know michael hastings has spent a lot of time on it as well are the drone attacks that the u.s. has been waging mostly in the middle east and north africa. leon panetta in response to an u.n. probe into those drone strikes, the legality of them, the affects of them, what is causing the increase in drone strikes, leon panetta is on what we call his farewell tour. >> when you have an enemy out there, you have to use everything you can against in a enemy.
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we did. >> it's a morality question. >> yes. >> do you sit there and say, is there a conversation that is had a when you make this decision? is this moral? >> as a catholic when i first became director of the c.i.a. i soon rulessed i was making life-and-death decisions. it doesn't come lightly. you have to really think about it. you have to make sure that we really are focused on somebody who is--who is a direct threat to the united states, someone who intends to attack the united states and to hurt our people. and you've got to be able to go through the process. it was an intricate process not only of establishing targets but going through the legal requirements to make sure that we're doing this carefully. >> my biggest problem with that clip is the very beginning when he said precise operations. we know they are not precise.
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it was misleading and i have a lot of problems with that. we'll get into this in a bit but michael what were your thoughts. >> leon panetta is the only man to hold every position. he was head of the c.i.a. secretary of defense. he knows a lot about this stuff but he's trying to sell it, michael hastings, i think it's a little bit of "the wizard of oz" oz," the sweet old man behind all the bluster. >> if he is a catholic then he should remember the rule you thou shalt not kill. as a catholic myself, that's one that i try to follow pretty religiously. >> he is the secretary of defense. the cabinet might be full of
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lots of secretary of defense for all i know. >> a catholic to be secretary of defense, but they're violating one of the fundamentalel tenants of their religion. by very credible reports the bureau of investigative journalism one of them over 100 people under the age of 18 killed in drone strikes in pakistan, a country we're not at war with. that's more than five nutans. where we have these debates and we can't have assault weapons and we're the number one global arms seller. we're taking the leading edge on the drone technology. we're regularly killing people in countries we're not even at war with. so i guess in this opaque system you talk about the legalities of it. it's about making laws so they
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can do what they want to do which they were doing any way. that i guess--i don't think that if you can rationalize killing anyone--unarmed kids because they happen to be near people you think are bad guys then i think you can rationalize basic basically killing anybody. >> you mentioned the numbers and we have the numbers for the audience right now. they're very telling. let's look at the first ten days of 2014. this is pakistan alone there were seven deadly strikes. at least 40 people killed. 11 of them may have been civilians. that's just an example of the precise operations happening abroad. >> and we're told that al-qaeda has been destroyed yet there has been 132 they had to kill in 2013. sorry. >> just to give you more numbers. between 2004 and 2013 total u.s.
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strikes were 362. total reported killed, 2629 to 3461. civilians killed, 475 to 891. children reported killed, 176. of course pakistan is not the only country where we're doing these drone strikes. we're also doing this in somalia. the total drone strikes in somalias were 3 to 9. total killed, 58 to 170. civilians killed. 11 to 57. and children reported killed, 1 to 3. and in yemen. drone strikes, 42 to 52. total reported killed 374 to 112. civilians killed, 72 to 178. and children killed, 37. these are supposed to create some strategy to keep our country safe. but how do you keep the country safe when you're terrorizing
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other countries that we're not even at war with. >> the arguments that the administration and leon panetta would argue that this is how you keep your country safe. you root out the evil. i'm not speaking on behalf of them. i'm saying what they say. root out evil, and there is a price to pay for that. here is panetta again talking about just that. >> i think the way to do it, frankly, is that in title ten operations so-called title ten the military operations, i think a lot more of this can be put under title ten and that on title 50 we always ought to have that capability to use a covert effort if we have to. >> but very limited. >> i would limit that. >> moving it under military there is more oversight at the pentagon. you should be in charge of this more so-- >> i think the advantage to it becomes much more transparent in terms of what we do. >> so if these are things for
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panetta to say on the way out. he certainly didn't say these things while he was there. michael hastings, i want to put you on the spot here. i'm going to read a quote from you. this is a perfect.com match for you. i want you to guess who said this. i'm sure you're going to agree with this. what scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. they are hated on a visceral level. guess. >> that's a familiar refrain. not own billy mcchrystal said it. everyone in the region knows it. when director panetta talks about the precision of these strikes and ana reads these numbers we have no idea how many people we've killed 37 how precise can these be if they don't know who they're killing and how many of them.
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>> in the history of war in the history of war we have not known those things. when the germans did blitz it's, and when america goes in iraq. i'm not defending any of that. >> i would be opposed to naponing. let's turn this around. say the drone is the technology. what happens if we're using b 2 bombers and dropping napons on people of pakistan. you see children running and you have american pilots dropping the bond and it's a visceral thing. the insidious nature of the drones is that it takes away the fact that there is no media coverage there. you don't get to see the pictures of the victim. a lot of people die in war but on the other hand those other conflicts were declared conflicts. what is going on in pakistan, yemen and somalia are covert operations. we don't know. >> that's a great distinction.
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those were official conflicts states at war with one another. this is very different and very vague. so too are the numbers. and so too are the coverage. michael hastings. always good to have you on "the young turks." as promised earlier but not delivered on, i have the president skeet shooting. >> you know washington. this thing was cascading conspiracy theories, guys like joe snickering. you ought to do something. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> it's go time.
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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> welcome back to "the young turks." welcome again, ana kasparian with me all day. shana and jayar jackson and ben
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mankiewicz. ana, i saw a photograph of our president shooting a gun. tell me more. >> yes, well the last time i heard the word skeet was when littlejohn said so in in a rap song. apparently president obama is bringing skeet back in a different contest. they asked him if you ever used a gun. he said, yes actually i go skeet shooting. everyone is saying, what the hell is that? and others were skeptical of that. they're saying no way he's using a gun if he's shooting skeet. then we have proof of skeet shooting happened. >> the president revealed he can relate to people who enjoy firing gun. when asked if he ever fired one he replied yes up in camp david we do skeet shooting all the time. >> is there a photograph of him doing it? >> there may be, but i haven't seen it. >> why haven't we heard about it before? >> because when he goes to camp david, he goes to spend time
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with his family and friends relax and not produce photographs. >> i'm offended there was time taken out of that press conference to talk about skeet shooting. even though there was all this skeptical commentary about it, obama released a photo of him shooting. you can't see the skeet but it appears to be what he's doing. that's what he's claiming. every's thoughts? >> first of all i like that you called it for the first time skeet shootin', you were really getting into it. i was dubious too. >> that he would fired a gun. >> although you know he wouldn't make it up. it's too crazy. john kerry might make it up. >> i'm dubious that you chutes all the time i'm not dubious that the photo of him is real. there are people who are convinced it's totally fake. but you're talking about people who think that everything that
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happens is fake. anything a game. >> look, i've been skeet shooting. >> i have, too. >> and i don't know who lil john is. >> no clue. did you hit any piece of clay? >> yes, i did. i'm a marksman. >> this will come as a surprise to you. i was horrible. >> really? >> yes yes. >> he demand photographs of both. >> otherwise it didn't happen. >> i just go to be with my family. there are no photographs. jayar? >> it proves that it doesn't matter what you do or accepted send out. all of us were skeptical of it, president obama skeet shooting. we don't care. that's the difference. it doesn't change what the discussion is about the gun control discussion. whether he did or didn't, that's silly. let's move onto the real discussion. >> skeet shooting is silly. but shana this isn't silly. bring good news. >> last year we went to
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chick-fil-a after it was discovered that their foundation had made a number of donations to very anti-gay groups. then their ceo dan cathy was not willing to back down and mike huckabee was excited about it. we went to chick-fil-a and decided this was our last chicken sandwich until it's all taken care of. >> so this is all taken care of? >> no, not yet. this week an organization called campus pride say the most divisive ain't lgbt groups are no longer listed. this is why i'm iffy about it. a, they haven't shown these tax filings to anyone else. this part of a personal friendship that blossomed from dan cathy and the campus lgbt pride. and they have not advertised it
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widely. dan cathy was out there saying i think my statement versus been mischaracterized. so i think it's too soon to go back for the chicken. >> and if you said it was okay, i wasn't even finishing the segment. >> that's exactly right. please keep us posted. >> i think it's important to remember there is a difference between being able to have a good conversation and have knows experiences and having made a difference in the change of their policies. >> well, let's keep fingers crossed. thanks shana. aire wejayar, we watched the super bowl together. >> the party was so crazy i missed a few of the commercials. but this is a good opportunity to run through the best ones and worst one depending on your point of view. i missed this. the dodge ad with the farmer. let's check that one out first. >> god said i need someone willing to get up before dawn,
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milk cows work in the field milk cows, eat supplier and work on the school board. so god made a farm who are would last and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does. >> i mean, touching, right? i don't know if they showed the dodge in the ad, but i have a dodge. i have two. i don't >> it's like a mitt romney with your two dodges. look at that. >> but doing things for you. who are the haters now? >> i liked it. it's paul harvey's voice, it's great, it's nostalgic for guys like me, michael and guys older than us. >> not because we farmed. >> no, i never hit anything with
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clay, a skeet, and i never farmed. i think it's good. i don't know if it's effective in many ways. >> i thought it was beautifully done. i liked it. it was a two-minute ad, and it was about $4 million per 30 seconds to advertise in the super bowl. that could have been a $16 million ad. at the end of the day i didn't feel like it was effective in making me want to buy a car. >> and they could afford it with jayar buying dodges all the time time. >> i think for the same reasons for that it annoyed me last year and i felt validateed in that annoyance of clint eastwood's performance. >> and they put the jeep in an ad. >> there will an seat left open. a light left on because in your home in our hearts, you've been missed. because when your you're home we're
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more than a family. we are a nation. >> now that one was a voice that we all grew up on, oprah winfrey. did it touch you in the same way or a different way and make you want to buy a jeep. >> it didn't. my loyalty to that company precedes me. what was nice in this ad was that it reminded me of the jeep ads that were run by the romney campaign, jeep, american. >> i don't--i hate that ad. i hate ads that try to use something like the troops to chilly for theirschill for their product. >> jeep was developed for the army. >> it gives jeep the tiniest credibility to do it, but others
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have done it, and it feels cheap to me. >> at least we're going to insulting next. from carl's jr. to co-daddy. we knew that they had to throw a few butts in our faces a little boobs. but they put the twist on it. >> there is the sexy side, and the smart side that creates a killer website for your small business represented by walter. together they are perfect. >> get your domain and web at go daddy.com. >> she looked pretty disgusted. >> there was a lot of blow back to last year's. this was the most hated ad of all the conversation that happened during the conversation about the super bowl online only 10% of the media posts were
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positive. bad conversation about your brand better than no conversation? >> i liked it. it would have been totally interesting if go daddy has the balances next year to have, you know, a very unattractive woman and a male model do the exact same ad. >> that would be cool and it would answer the question, would you pay $1.5 million to kiss that guy? guys, thanks so much for all of this conversation. jayar, great with the ads. when we come back, of course, we return to america. we return to guns. the police in oakland. they've gone a little bit crazy and maybe they're under staffed. is this the wild west? >> and if they are shooting at officers that they know are officers then it's very likely that they will shoot at innocent people as well. last week two officers were shot. one in the arm and one in the leg. [ ♪ music ♪ ]
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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> over the past few years the city of oakland, california, has had the worsening crime problem. and what makes that problem even worse is the funding cuts for police in that city. we have the report talking about the most recent victim of violence and it's an eight-year-old. >> the oakland police interviewed several adults at the same house in the 2200 block of 6 fifth avenue 65 avenue where
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the eight-year-old girl was shot. >> we will catch the shooter and we are coming after you with all resources possible, and with deliberate speed. >> now it's unfortunate because they don't have many resources when it comes to combating crime. the oakland police department has faced severe cuts. as a result they have shrunk by 18 period shedding 138 officers, and as you might expect, less officers usually means more crime. we saw the same thing in camden, new jersey, when they cut their police officers and crime skyrocketed. in oakland murders have gone up 16%. rapes have gone up 24%: here to talk about this tragic story is barry donelan. he's going to answer some
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questions for us when it comes to funding cuts. thank you for joining us today. >> thankthank you for having me, ana. >> can you be specific about how much money the police department is having taken away from them as a result of these funding cuts. >> our forces dropped down to close to 600 officers. which had just two years ago 837. many independent reports and reviews of the situation in oakland have called for officers numbers ranging from 900 to 1200 officers to really try to get to grips with the crime problem we have in oakland and also police population. >> we recently did this story about how much money the raiders are getting from oakland. i mean, when you put that into context, how do you feel about it, and what is the police officers association doing to basically get the priorities right in oakland? >> well, the association's
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priorities are those of the officers, which is to protect our community from this crime wave that is sweeping across the city. we just ask that city leaders do the same. that they knuckle down and make the hard choices whether it's the raiders or public safety, and move forward with a strategy to reduce this enormous crime wave in oakland. >> recently there were two police officers who were shot in one week. is that something that is unusual in oakland? >> having any department have two officers shot in two separate incidents doing their duty in just one week is unheard of. a number of years weigh we lost four officers in the line of duty in one day. no one can tell me that it isn't dangerous policing the streets of oakland. >> barry, we heard a lot of people on your force upset about the situation in oakland. i think policemen are often outspoken. and to hear it coming out of
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oakland is not a surprise. william bratton has just been brought in as a consultant to the police department here. are those kind of things--bratton had has a success record. people will argue with his tactics but he has a successful record in new york, los angeles to a degree in boston. how do you see this affecting the oakland police department. >> we will take any and all help whether it's bratton or anyone else. we don't want a band aid. we need a long-sturm strategy to deal with the crime problems in oakland. with just 600 officers struggling to take the call for service and protect our citizens it's a near impossible task to stick a band aid over the problem. we need a long-term strategy and we need oakland city leaders to stand up and take on crime. >> quickly barry you know police work well. it's your life.
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has there been an instance in this country where higher more police officers doesn't reduce crime? >> just look at the statistics just in january. two officers shot in one week. an eight-year-old gunned down in the street. a grandmother walking down a major thoroughfare murdered as she gets groceries for her kids? and reduction in the number of officers over the last few years, and a massive crime wave. there is clearly a correlation between the number of officers in the oakland police department and the crime. >> thank you for articulating the case for the police department in oakland on "the young turks." thank you for bringing that to our attention. when we return here on "the young turks" we're going to go to a film, a striking film about what's going on between israel and palestine. it's called "five broken cameras." it's nominated for an oscar. [ gunfire ]
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>> "five broken cameras" is a movie nominateed for best documentary. it's really about non-violence. nonviolence resistence in the west bank. we're lucky to have ben mankiewicz our film reviewer to talk about it. >> thank you very much. every time i see one of the films nominated for the best documentary oscar i want that film to win. the latest film i've seen is "five broken cameras." it's as powerful a documentary that you're going to see this year maybe this decade. here is a look at the trailer.
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[ gunfire ] [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> we're joined by one of the film's co-director. ahmad is not just the director of the film. you're the protagonist in the film. it is really your story. the "five broken cameras"
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referring to the five cameras that you used and then subsequently destroyed by various means. to chronicle what, in your words. >> this is the story of my life, the village life and my family's life. this is the history of my village. i've been filming the resistence in my village and the daily life for seven years. i have been filming my son growing up for seven years in this situation. >> you brought the first camera to document the birth of your son, and then as he would grow forward, you would continue to shoot his life. but also the israelis continuing to develop settlements that kept encroaching further and further on your small west bank town. did you imagine when you started shooting this, i'm sure the answer is no, that it would lead
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to this? at what point did it occur to you that you had a larger story to tell? >> you know, since 2005 when i decided to film, it was part of the resistence. i wanted to take part of the resistence with my camera for different purposes. but since 2005 i got this idea to make a film, to make a story about my life from my perspective. i thought people would come and make films about the subject about my life. butbut they have never lived through what i live. >> the protest as seen in the film are non-violent. you cannot say the same about the israeli soldiers. there was scene after scene with live ammunition and tear gas being used on people who at best are throwing stones but mainly
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throwing insults. what is it like to be involved in that, and as the film progressed, to lose people you care about very deeply? >> i live there. this is my place. this is my home. this is my responsibility to be there and to film. i know that it's going to be a risk, and i put my life in risk situation. but there is something that is more important than me and my family and my friends. there is the palestinian story the whole story the situation. >> i want to run a clip very quickly of this. we don't have much time left but you had five broken cameras. two of the cameras destroyed by bullets that almost certainly would have hit you. here is the third camera, i believe.
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[ gunfire ] [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> i can't emphasize the motion of this film enough, the powerful emotion. when you arrived here about 45 minutes ago i had not yet watched the end of the film. i was literally watching it today. then you told me how it ended. i can't remember reacting more
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strongly about the end of the movie than this, and of course it's true. how have you dealt with the losses you've faced now, and does it feel--do you think your son, who is now seven years old do you think he'll see peace in his lifetime? >> i've been filming for--my goal was to spread the footage and show the world what is going on here. what is going on in my place. so i wanted to create these and a good life for my kid. and i hope that in the next generation my son would live in peace and see more peace. >> the film is called "five broken cameras," emad. thank you. >> i think everyone wants to see that film now.
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we'll be back with more "the young turks."
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